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Anonymous issues. temp. Hadrian–Antoninus Pius, AD 117-161. Æ Quadrans (17mm, 2.64 g, 1h). Rome mint. Draped bust of the personification of Fall, as a youthful child, right, wearing vine wreath with grape bunches and a vine-wreath necklace with grape bunches / S • C within vine wreath with grape bunches. RIC II p. 219, 34; Van Heesch 2, pl. XXV, 4. Dark brown patina with earthen deposits, multiple scratches and scrapes. Near VF. Rare.
Mattingly originally assigned this type to the large number of anonymous quadrantes issued in the general period of the late first and early second centuries. He dismissed the assertion of Cohen, however, who assigned this type to Annius Verus, the deceased twin of the emperor Commodus. The presence of several consistent varieties of this type prompted Van Heesch to retain the Antonine attribution, but to assign these coins instead to personifications of the seasons, representations of the abundance present in Rome's "Golden Age."
Mattingly originally assigned this type to the large number of anonymous quadrantes issued in the general period of the late first and early second centuries. He dismissed the assertion of Cohen, however, who assigned this type to Annius Verus, the deceased twin of the emperor Commodus. The presence of several consistent varieties of this type prompted Van Heesch to retain the Antonine attribution, but to assign these coins instead to personifications of the seasons, representations of the abundance present in Rome's "Golden Age."